26 Great Nail Art Ideas: Dotting Tools - Not Dots

Using dotting tools but not for dots was a challenge, I ended up attempting waterless marble nails.

Base Polish: NYC - Water Street Blue
Marble Polishes: La Femme - Mint Cream, Essie - Liquorice

Dotting Tools
Ubermat
Stamper
Peel Off Latex

Nails: Marble Feathers

Base Polishes:
Sally Hansen - Dorian Grey
Barry M - Chai
Essie - Licorice

Stamping Polish: MoYou Nails - Special Nail Polish - White
Stamping Plate: MoYou Nails - 422

Nail Polish Battle 2016: Top 9 Polishes

So over the past two weeks there has been nine nail polish battles, each of the following winning there individual rounds. Before going ahead and showing the top three and the actual winner I wanted to share swatches of all of the top nine polishes.

Models Own - Chrome Indigo // Barry M - Cardamom // OPI - Liv In The Gray // Cupcake Polish - Berry Looking Good // Barry M - Chilli // A England - Let Me In // Avon - Dazzle // Nails Inc - Clarence Avenue // Essie - Licorice

Models Own - Chrome Indigo

Barry M - Cardamom

OPI - Liv In The Gray

Cupcake Polish - Berry Looking Good

Barry M - Chilli

A England - Let Me In

Avon - Dazzle

Nails Inc - Clarence Avenue

Essie - Licorice

Nail Polish Battle 2016: Black Polishes

For the past four years I have done nail polish battles, the idea is all of the new nail polishes I have gathered throughout the year battle against each other to see which is the best polish of the year. During 2016 I have 76 new polishes to battle with.

Firstly are the black nail polishes:

Barry M - Black Cherry // Barry M - Blackcurrant // Barry M - Black Grape // Kiko - Black // Essie - Licorice

While I do like all of these polishes, I have to opt between Kiko Black and Essie Licorice as they are both creme black polishes rather than another colour heavily blackened.

This was a hard battle but I chose Licorice because the brush is slightly better than the Kiko version, it is flat with a rounded cuticle. However both of them are one coaters.

Nails: Blue Glitter Accents

Essie - Licorice

Models Own - True Blue
Ciate - Glass Slipper
W7 - Boogie Nights 

Nails: Holo Polka Dots

Base Polish: Essie - Licorice

Accent Polish: A England - Ascalon

Dotting Tools

Nails: Bling

Essie - Licorice
A England - Polovetsian Dances

3mm Rhinestones

40 Great Nail Art Ideas: Insects

This week I have attempted to do ants on a picnic blanket nails;

Base Polishes: Essie - Licorice, Barry M - Matt White
French Tip Polish: Essie - Shall We Chalet
Glitter Polish: TarasTalons - My Tangle
Stamping Polish: Essie - Shall We Chalet
Stamping Plate: M64